01/20/10 – UPDATE TO POST:
Thanks for your support with our calendar fund raiser over the weekend. Because of your support we are sending over $700 to UNICEF.
THANK YOU!
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Dear Design and Printing Friends,
As a father of three young children I can not imagine the reality that is Haiti right now. Our studio would like to help. We are donating 100% of our 2010 letterpress calendar sales starting today to the UNICEF fund for Haiti.
You can buy a calendar on our studio site for $30. We’ll direct all accumulated funds, less your shipping cost to Unicef early next week.
Or you can support UNICEF directly at their site.
Thanks for your consideration,
Ben Levitz
Principal, Studio On Fire

Published on
January 15, 2010 in
Letterpress, News and Studio On Fire Products.
Tags: benefit, calendar, earthquake, effort, haiti, Letterpress, product, relief, unicef.
Bon à Tirer // Taken from the French, “bon à tirer” is a technical term used by printmakers to indicate the final proof of a print, the standard against which all others in the edition are judged.
We got some shirts printed up by the Hot Snot Print Shop for the AIGA event last week. We’ve also got a bunch left- so we’ll be putting them up on our web-store next week along with the “Birds of Sadness” poster Ben did for the Sweet Hair show a few weeks back. We’ll be sure to let all you fine folks know once they’re ready to be purchased.
The shirt was designed with our good old tabletop manual proofing press, strong wood type and a steady hand.

Published on
August 7, 2009 in
Design, Letterpress, News and Studio On Fire Products.
Tags: AIGA, birds of sadness, bon a tirer, hot snot, Letterpress, manual press, poster, product, screenprinting, shirt, sweet hair, t shirt, tee shirt, Wood Type.
We’ve been asked several time now, “So how come Studio On Fire was not at the National Stationery Show?”
Simply because the lion share of our work as a studio continues to be custom letterpress printing for other designers around the country. We love printing custom work for other designers. We’re good at it and proud of the results. That is what we are focused on and the NSS is not the right venue to promote our services. While we do continue to have a product line, we are promoting it independently, selling to a small number of boutique retailers and museum shops. If you are a retailer and wish to set up a wholesale account, email us and we’ll be happy to send along our catalog.
Here is a sampling of our product from our Designer Series Deskline. We wanted the elements in our product line to feel sort of like a test print or sheet of make ready. Those always have such a wonderful randomness that is enormously difficult to capture intentionally in a layout. This design is Polkaville Party, designed in conjunction with two fine designers here in Minneapolis – Kelly & Kindra, both are currently teaching design over at MCAD.
There is monarch sized stationery with two letterhead designs included, a pinhole perforated dry gum label sheet, folding self mailers, stitched mini journals and a punch out tag and calling card set. All is printed with three color letterpress on cotton and recycled papers. The overprinting creates some sweet purple and greens throughout the prints. Product is for sale on our web site. We are currently offering free shipping within the United States.



Published on
May 20, 2009 in
Letterpress, News and Studio On Fire Products.
Tags: business card, calling card, dry gum, journal, label, letterhead, Letterpress, National Stationery Show, nss, party, perforated, pinhole, polkaville, product, self mailer, stationery, stitched.
Check out a feature from our own product line…
The Studio On Fire Deskline contains uniquely formatted and detailed paper goods. Sweetheart Seamstress stationery elements include stitched journals, letter writing sets, punch-out calling card and tag sets, self mailing notes with pinhole perforated labels and mini folders.
Look for these details: custom scalloped edge envelopes, fill-in-your-name calling cards, mini book marks, perforated label sheets with dry gum backing.
Our vision for a product line was to create finished pieces that captures some of the random qualities that happen in test prints and makeready. We worked with Kelly English and Kindra Murphy on three different product themes. On this theme, Kelly used vintage sewing pattern inspired elements to create layers of texture and pattern. The detail is almost to cute to stand. And of course all of it is letterpress printed. They can be purchased on our website.



Published on
March 7, 2009 in
Design, Letterpress and Studio On Fire Products.
Tags: bookmarks, calling cards, card, deskline, envelope, folders, handmade, journals, kelly english, labels, letterhead, Letterpress, letterpress services, mailer, minneapolis, patterns, product, scalloped edge, sewing, stationery, stitched, studio on fire, sweetheart seamstress, tags, thread.